[HTML][HTML] The promise and pitfalls of a strength-based approach to child poverty and neurocognitive development: Implications for policy

ML DeJoseph, ME Ellwood-Lowe, D Miller-Cotto… - Developmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
There has been significant progress in understanding the effects of childhood poverty on
neurocognitive development. This progress has captured the attention of policymakers and …

Leveraging an intensive time series of young children's movement to capture impulsive and inattentive behaviors in a preschool setting

AE Koepp, ET Gershoff - Child Development, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Studying within‐person variability in children's behavior is frequently hindered by
challenges collecting repeated observations. This study used wearable accelerometers to …

Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood

CL McDermott, K Taylor, SDS Sharp… - Developmental …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Children vary in how sensitive they are to experiences, with consequences for their
developmental outcomes. In the current study, we investigated how behavioral sensitivity at …

Children's sensitivity to difficulty and reward probability when deciding to take on a task

J Wang, E Bonawitz - Journal of cognition and development, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Sometimes we should persist to succeed. But other times it might be wiser to give up on the
task at hand and focus our energy on something new. Knowing whether a task is worth the …

Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children

AT Park, H Richardson, UA Tooley… - Developmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
How do children's experiences relate to their naturalistic emotional and social processing?
Because children can struggle with tasks in the scanner, we collected fMRI data while 4-to …

Relationship between executive function and persistence in 5-year-olds

M Ishikawa, Y Moriguchi, Y Kanakogi - Cognitive Development, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Children's persistence can predict later academic achievement. However, few studies have
examined the factors related to individual differences in persistence. In this study, we …

Children perpetuate competence-based inequality when they help peers

J Sierksma - npj Science of Learning, 2023‏ - nature.com
Exchanges of help between children are common and often have positive consequences.
But not all help is equally beneficial, for example because some help does not provide an …

Bidirectional negative relation between young children's persistence and cheating

L Zhao, J Peng, K Lee - Child Development, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
This research examined the link between persistence and cheating in 3‐to 6‐year‐old
children (2021–2022, N= 200, 100 boys; M age= 4.85 years; all middle‐class Han Chinese) …

Examining Baseline Relations Between Parent–Child Interactions and STEM Engagement and Learning

S Gin, H Yin, CM Boykin, DM Sobel - Developmental Science, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Several studies suggest that children's learning and engagement with the content of play
activities is affected by the ways parents and children interact. In particular, when parents …

The Concept of Parental Praise in Parenting

G Karadeniz - Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2023‏ - ceeol.com
Praise is stated as a good performance resource that can increase the individual's sense of
competence and motivate their new learning. When the literature is examined, the …